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This one is a week old, but I don't care. Enjoy the L.A. River as you've probably not appreciated it before, through a photo essay at Wildbell.com...Variety's Michael Schneider and the LA Weekly's Eric Berkowitz guest on NBC4's "News Conference," Sunday at 9 a.m. Then at 1 p.m., I will be on KPFK's Deadline L.A. to talk about the Times with host Howard Blume. The Weekly's Nikki Finke will also be in studio, which could be interesting since we've never met [* Nope, she did the smart thing and called it in]...In next week's L.A. Business Journal, James Nash follows up on Finke's story about studios cutting their ad buys in the local papers. He also has a piece saying that newsstand sales for Los Angeles and other regional mags are down. Some circulation totals: Los Angeles, 151,307; Angeleno, 53,857; Distinction, 37,487...Speaker Fabian Nunez's political acumen is questioned in today's LAT story about his choppy trip to Mexico. Eye-opening quip at the end, from Nunez: "Antonio Villaraigosa will be the next governor. I'll just carry his bags."...Blogger Joz had a bad night at the Hollywood Bowl...A 1990 oral interview with photographer Julius Shulman was dug up at the Smithsonian website by Chris Nichols of the L.A. Conservancy's Modcom...New LAT Book Editor David L. Ulin also found out this week he's a finalist for the Southern California Booksellers Association Book Award, along with Ben Stiller and Marla Kennedy, his co-editors on Looking at Los Angeles. Other finalists include Denise Hamilton, Lisa See, Yxta Maya Murray, Sharon Waxman, Amy Ephron and my fellow Angel City Press author, Ernest Marquez. The SCBA website doesn't have the names up yet.